OCTOBER 2015 - TOPICS

Short News The 2nd Hel.A.S. Summer School Astronomy & Astrophysics available only on-line PhD position at Lund Observatory University of Crete/FORTH Lecture Series - Year of Light 2015 COSPAR 2016 Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

Upon several requests, made by members of our society who participated in the 12th Conference of Hel.A.S., a final extension of the deadline for sending extended abstracts and material related to presentations had been granted. All material related to the Conference has now been collected and should become publicly available through the conference's web-page by the end of next week.

2. The 2nd Hel.A.S. Summer School

The Governing Council of Hel.A.S. is pleased to announce that the second "Hel.A.S. Summer School" will take place in Athens, from 11 to 15 of July, 2016. The title of the School is "Nuclear activity in galaxies". Its aim is to train graduate students, Ph.D. students and young postdoctoral researchers in the following topics: X-ray emission from AGN, X-ray surveys - Black hole evolution across cosmic times, Infrared Emission from Dust and Gas in Galaxies, and Jets from AGN. More information and a dedicated web page for preregistration will be announced in one of our next newsletters.

3. Astronomy & Astrophysics available only on-line

Following similar decisions from other major astrophysics journals, Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) announced that the journal will move to online-only publication from the beginning of 2016. In recent years, it has become clear that demand is moving rapidly towards the electronic edition of the journal with the print version becoming less important. More information on this decision is available at: http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2015/09/aa27370-15.pdf

4. PhD position at Lund Observatory

An open PhD position at Lund Observatory in high-resolution, infrared stellar spectroscopy has been announced. The application deadline is November 2, 2015. Instructions on how to apply and more details can be found at: http://www.astro.lu.se/vacancies

5. University of Crete / FORTH Lecture Series - Year of Light 2015

The University of Crete, the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH) and the Municipality of Heraklion are organising a series of Public Lectures (in Greek) and a photography exhibition entitled "The visible Universe through the telescopes and cameras of the Skinakas Observatory", in the framework of the UNESCO-sponsored "International Year of Light", 2015. The lectures will be given by Academic staff of the University of Crete and Researchers of FORTH. The programme and other information of these two events can be found on: http://skinakas.physics.uoc.gr/

6. COSPAR 2016

The 41st Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly will be held in İstanbul, which bridges Asia and Europe both physically and culturally. TUBITAK is proud of hosting this Scientific Assembly, at the Istanbul Congress Center (ICC) between 30th of July and 7th of August 2016. We encourage our members to consider submitting an abstract. More information can be found at: http://cospar2016.tubitak.gov.tr/

7. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece

The following meetings are scheduled to take place in Greece during 2015-2016: Astronomical Data Analysis 2016 Summer School Chania, Greece, 22-24 May, 2016 Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology Chania, Greece, 24-27 May, 2016 Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death Chania, Crete, Greece, 6-11 June, 2016 European Week of Astronomy and Space Science Athens, 4-8 July, 2016 2nd Hel.A.S. Summer School Athens, 11-15 July, 2016

8. About this Newsletter

This Newsletter was sent to all members of Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access. The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around November 1st, 2015. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before October 26, 2015. If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the e-mail address to which it was sent is not your preferred one, please inform the Secretary of Hel.A.S.